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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Towre
Samuel T. Orton
Trigraph
Phoneme
2. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Composite Score
Standard deviation
MSL
Auditory Learners
3. Multisensory Structured Language Education
James Hinshelwood
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Funding
MSLE
4. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Visual Processing
Battery
MSLE
Receptive language
5. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Impulsivity
Grapheme
Kinesthetic
6. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Vr
Accuracy
Whole Language
Raw score
7. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Chall's Stage 4
Stanine Scores
VV
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Ability
Sight Words
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
9. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Open Syllable
Breve
Standard deviation
Closed Syllable
10. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Towre
VAKT
Closed Syllable
11. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Base Word
Curriculum referenced tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Universal Screening
12. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Pre-English
Standard deviation
Diagnostic tests
13. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Three Layers of Language
Chall's Stage 3
Syllable
Accommodation
14. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Breve
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Matthew Effect
Norm-Referenced Test
15. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Tilde
Profile
Percentile/ percentile rank
16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Phonemic Awareness
Standardized test
Auditory Processing
Oral Language
17. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Mastery level
Vr
Diagnostic Teaching
Diphthong
18. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Percentile/ percentile rank
Achievement test
Open Syllable
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
19. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Comprehension
Open Syllable
ESL
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
20. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Chall's Stage 4
The Norman Conquest
[-'le
Progress Monitoring
21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
IMSLEC
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
VC
22. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Prefix
Achievement test
Keith Stanovich
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
23. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Phonics
Consonant Digraph
Modification
Accent
24. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
VV
Phonological Awareness
ADHD
25. Feeling through fingertips
Vr
Tactile
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
ADHD
26. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Modern English
Rate
CTOPP
ALTA
27. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Base Word
Receptive language
Three Layers of Language
Vowel
28. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Social language
Combination
GORT
29. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Expressive language
James Hinshelwood
Diagnostic Teaching
Norm-referenced tests
30. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Components of Reading Instruction
Tactile
RTI
31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Latin layer of language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Profile
Derivative
32. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Kinesthetic
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonics approach
ADHD
33. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Texas Education Code 28.06
Universal Screening
Cedilla
Adolf Kusmaul
34. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Academic Achievement Tests
Visual Processing
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
35. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
Accent
WIATII
Joe Torgesen
36. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Battery
WRAT
ESL
37. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
IMSLEC
Three Layers of Language
Phonemic Awareness
38. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
V-e
Whole Language
MSL
39. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Standard Scores
Suffix
NICHD
Standard score
40. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
CTOPP
IMSLEC
Phoneme
Combination
41. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Joe Torgesen
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Six basic types of syllables
Visual Processing
42. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Diagnostic Teaching
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Consonant
Academic Achievement Tests
43. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Auditory Learners
Combination
Pre-English
Closed Syllable
44. Individual Educational Plan
Vowel Digraph
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
IEP
Chall's Stage 1
45. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Profile
Simultaneous teaching
The Norman Conquest
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
46. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Whole Language
Impulsivity
Academic Achievement Tests
47. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Phonological Awareness
Curriculum referenced tests
Whole Language
Components of Reading Instruction
48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Sound Symbol Association
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phonemic Awareness
49. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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50. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
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Profile
Texas Education Code 38.003